Sexual Segregation and Flexible Mating Patterns in Temperate Bats

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Angell, Ruth L ^a   Butlin, Roger K ^b   Altringham, John D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAT; BREEDING SUCCESS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HIBERNATION; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYOTIS DAUBENTONII; NONHUMAN; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SPECIES HABITAT; THERMOREGULATION;

AGE FACTORS; ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CHIROPTERA; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GENETICS, POPULATION; MALE; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; SEX FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TEMPERATURE;

MYOTIS DAUBENTONI;

EID: 84872861532     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054194     Document Type: Article

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